Well, I thought Not D.'s 2nd birthday was today, but I guess it was yesterday… So I'm celebrating it's belated birthday by playing Super Mario Galaxy and eating stuffed pasta shells and ice cream. I'm sure you can feel the excitement radiating off me all the way at your computer. Not only has my fan fic somehow lasted over two years, but I've also made it to chapter thirty four. And if you were me, you'd know that was almost more special than anything else, because thirty four is my favorite number for basically no reason.
As for what I was doing: Do you need me to say it? Oh, it was nothing important. I'm just incredibly addicted to the anime Soul Eater. Watching thirty episodes almost consecutively (aside from going to school and doing work); it's just an awesome show. In fact, while I'm writing, I am listening to the third ending, Bakosou Yume Uta. I told you the name so you can all listen to it and become possessed fans yourselves.
I just lost the game.
"Daisuke! Dark! I have a mission for you!"
"No! Mom, not now!" Daisuke shouted from his room. "I need to memorize all these lines for Risa's play!"
"Please, cherry-eyes? I'll bake you a cake!"
"I don't want any of your toxic food!"
Daisuke's mom peeked in the door. "But it's really important… What can I get for you to convince you to do this?"
"Well…" said Daisuke. "I have always wanted a box turtle, but you won't let me because you think Wiz will get jealous."
Don't get a turtle! Get a lion! Or a flaming panda bear with blood dripping-
"Don't talk about Wiz like that!" His mom sniffed. "He… He won't like it when he's in the rabbit-creature-thing field in the sky…"
"Mom, I really want a turtle! One that you won't poison! One that Wiz can't eat! Please?!" Daisuke begged. He had wanted one since he was old enough to say 'turtle', which must have been pretty early because he could lock-pick before he could walk.
"But a turtle is a big responsibility!" Daisuke's mom said. "Maybe when you're older!"
"Mom! I fight haunted art work every week! I think I can take care of a little turtle!" Daisuke argued. "Turtles don't do anything! They can't run away! All they do is eat grapes and hide in their shell! Please, please, please?!"
"Wow, Daisuke, you grovel well," Riku growled sarcastically.
"Ah! Riku! You're at my house! On my window sill…" Daisuke blinked. "Why did you come up through the window?"
"Your mom said that we would have to prove our worth as your partner by climbing up the roof," Donis explained, popping up beside her merrily.
"'We'?! I did all the pedaling!" Riku yelled.
"You biked up my roof? Never mind. Did my mom call you?" Daisuke asked.
"Yeah, she said she had a really important mission for us. Risa didn't come because she's busy freaking out about that play at home," Riku explained.
"When are we going?" Donis inquired once he was through passing out tea to everyone.
"Well, that all depends on how quickly my mom promises me a turtle." Daisuke proceeded to fold his arms and act like a disobedient child in a toy store for the first time in his life.
Riku rolled her eyes. "Okay, I'm not waiting around for this. What do we have to do this time?"
"On the edge of Daisuke's Home Town, a new person appeared randomly. And since we haven't had anyone randomly appear in a while now, I'd have to say that they're probably important to plot in some way," Daisuke's mom answered.
"Sounds like a jolly time!" Donis exclaimed.
"But Daisuke won't go unless I get him a turtle," she sighed.
"I'm not waiting around for this. I have a life." Riku picked up Daisuke and thrust him out the window. She and Donis arrived soon after on Riku's new mountain bike.
"Hop on," Riku called from the sidewalk to Daisuke, who had landed in a tree and was now being savagely pecked apart by a family of chickadees.
After clambering down, and ignoring the urge to get a box or nine of Band-Aids, Daisuke sat on the back of Riku's bike.
"How in the world are we supposed to fit three people?" he asked, clinging to Donis who was clinging to Riku.
"I guess I stuff you in the basket-"
"Uh, that's okay," Daisuke quickly declined.
So they road the forty-seven or so miles to the edge of Daisuke's Home Town. It was very late by the time they got there, but, miraculously, none of them were tired, not even Riku.
Donis looked about, then sipped from his China tea cup. "What happens now?"
Daisuke shrugged. "I guess we wait for something weird to happen."
It's a good thing that they didn't have to wait very long, because I'm sure if it were more than ten minutes more, their ADD would have kicked in and they all would have gone home. Instead, an emaciated and terror-stricken boy appeared.
"Something unusual!" Daisuke shouted.
"Kill it!" Riku jumped to her feet. The boy shrieked.
"No!" he screamed in defense, putting up his literally skinny-as-a-stick arms. "Don't hurt me! Please! I just walked for twenty-six miles to escape a mental institution and rabid dogs and scientists, and I didn't get that far to be attacked by random people!"
Daisuke and Riku looked at each other.
"I don't know… Is it… Weird enough for you?" Daisuke asked her.
"I'm pretty sure at this point I've seen weirder," Riku nodded.
"You have to hide me! I don't want to get caught!" the boy pleaded.
"Don't worry, we'll protect you from the wacky shack," Riku said. She took out a clipboard for no reason. "So, tell us: why would you qualify as weird enough to bike forty seven miles?"
"Well… um…" the boy said, poking his fingers together Hinata-style and looking around.
"Yo, everyone! Luke here is totally poking his fingers together like Hinata and looking around as he attempts to not seem weird! Let's give him a round of applause!" said a DJ/Announcer-like voice from nowhere.
"What was that?" Daisuke looked around frantically.
"It won't stop following me!" the boy squealed, horrified.
"What kind of a name is Luke?" Riku laughed at his expense.
"I don't know, but it's weird enough to investigate," Daisuke replied.
Donis was giving poor Luke a cup of tea, which Luke couldn't drink because he was too busy sobbing fearfully.
"It won't stop following me!" he repeated. "Everywhere I go, every time I try to be normal, the voice comes out and tells everyone what I'm doing! And then people get scared of me!"
"OMG, everyone! News flash: a voice is following Luke around and totally terrifying not only him, but everyone around him, too! What to do!" the voice said, not realizing it was the cause of the boy's pain.
Luke sat on the ground crying and having himself a Pity Party.
"I suppose that's weird enough," Daisuke said with a shrug.
"Okee-dokee then." Riku shamelessly grabbed Luke by the wrist and stuffed him in her basket. "There we go. Nice and cozy."
Luke whimpered, looking anything but nice and cozy.
"You're not taking me back, are you?" he asked through his smushed mouth.
"Not to the funny farm, no," Riku answered, peddling quickly.
'I didn't get to do anything,' Dark pouted.
'I'm glad that we didn't have to do anything. I also hope that I get a turtle,' said Daisuke, determined.
So they road into the not sunset.
What a cliff-hanger! Huh? What do you mean how? Don't you want to know if he's naming it Donatello, Rafael, Michelangelo or Leonardo?
Thanks to Sarah1281 for pointing out that Risa and Riku were switched, a common mistake of mine that before this chapter I promised to myself not to make again... Heh. I usually read these to my sister before posting them, but this time I didn't and there were those mistakes.